This shot was taken indoors (obviously) with natural light, no flash or artifical lights of any kind. It came out really gray with a 2 1/2 filter. If I push the filter for more contrast, I loose a lot of detail.

The nature of the image suggests to me that it was shot with film and scanned, and the original negative was underexposed, therefore lacking detail in the shadows. Accordingly as you mention, when you increase the contrast filtration, you lose detail.

The nature of the image suggests to me that it was shot with film and scanned, and the original negative was underexposed, therefore lacking detail in the shadows. Accordingly as you mention, when you increase the contrast filtration, you lose detail.

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Scanned print, not a scanned neg. The whole roll was exposed quite well. I wasn't able to get in with a tripod, so for this shot, I was lying on the bed, laying on the camera while gorilla griping it to keep it still for the one full second of exposure. It just came out flat. I guess that all of the colors with the given light were relativly close to 18% gray.